We walked all the way to the Zichen Palace, and Yang Zigao asked Li Rui, Wei Huan and I to wait outside the hall, and he reported from inside. The sky was still bright, but the hour was already a little late, but my father and mother had not yet gone to the living hall, and in the front hall, this was really unusual. I was apprehensive, so I rubbed to Li Rui's side and asked him, "Is A-Niang in a good mood today?"

Li Ruibai me: "What do you think?"

That's not good. I lowered my head, tugged at his sleeve, and called out "Brother".

Li Rui snatched his sleeve back, and said while adjusting his sleeve: "Don't tear Lone's court clothes." ”

The court clothes are the court clothes, and they are still "lonely", and I still call myself to give it, hum. I also rolled my eyes at him, stood bored for a while, and saw that my parents had not been summoned yet, which was strange, and I came to Li Rui's side and asked, "Why hasn't A-Niang seen me yet." ”

Li Rui said impatiently: "Your Majesty is going to meet so many ministers in one day, isn't it natural that we will be at the back?"

I snorted, turned my head in front of him, and looked at him from below up. Li Rui wore a court dress, at first glance, he had a bit of the majesty of a prince, but unfortunately he was still too young, and after being stared at by me for a while, he couldn't stand it, his eyes turned left and right, and he said uncomfortably: "What do you see?"

I asked, "Is it that Aya A-Niang told you something, so you are like this now... Eccentric. ”

Li Rui said proudly: "I am over fifteen years old, I am the prince of Kaifu, how can I be like you when I speak and act?"

I realized: "It must be Aya A-Niang who scolded you, blaming you for not taking me well as a brother, so you are here to show me a face." ”

Li Rui snorted, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence, I saw him with a cold face, pinching his nose with one hand, fanning the wind in front of him with the other, and said, "It stinks, it stinks." ”

Li Rui subconsciously sniffed and said, "Where does it stink?"

I laughed at him: "Of course you mean your face stinks." ”

Someone next to me burst out laughing, I turned my head to look at Wei Huan, but saw her with a solemn face, her head down, no smile, and then looked around, the palace attendants were all a few steps away from us, and they couldn't hear us at all, so they couldn't laugh.

I suspected that I had misheard, so I didn't pursue it further, and Li Rui's face became darker than Fang Cai, glared at me viciously, walked to the side, and refused to stand with me.

We stood for a while, it was getting dark, my legs had begun to be numb, my stomach had begun to be hungry, there were still occasional courtiers going in and out, but now it is gone, I touched my stomach, and finally realized that the two Majesties were mostly punishing us, there was a little grievance, and quickly cleared out this grievance, corrected the attitude, straightened upright, and put on the appearance of a loyal minister and filial son.

When the Shangshan supervisor sent someone to deliver food to spend the night, Yang Zigao finally came out: "King Xuandai, Princess Changle." ”

Li Rui and I were like amnesty, straightened their clothes together, found that each other's movements were the same, and looked at each other again, I smiled at him first, and the deliberate alienation on Li Rui's face couldn't be hung up, so he just turned his face away, snorted lightly, and said, "I'm a brother." "One step forward, the first to enter.

I was disgusted, my face was still dignified, I stepped into the hall, walked to the throne with the most ladylike demeanor, and bowed respectfully with Li Rui: "Ministers Wang Rui/Princess Changle Taiping, knock to see Your Majesty." ”

The father and mother did not scream, and the mother seemed to deviate her head, and seemed to be tugging her dress, and there was a crisp sound of jewels colliding around her body. My father's voice was much more regular, and all I could hear was him tapping his fingers on the table, one at a time, slowly, leisurely.

Neither Li Rui nor I dared to raise their heads and secretly glance up.

We knelt for a while, until my knees began to go numb and my body shook a little, when I heard my father get up, walk over to me, stop when he came to me, and say, "Do you know what's wrong?" and it was "you," but it was clearly me.

Li Rui kowtowed on the ground and said, "The minister knows his mistake." But I straightened up unhurriedly and said, "The minister knows that he is wrong, but this matter is not the fault of the minister alone, and the two Majesties are also at fault." ”

Li Rui was startled, and he didn't care that Fang Cai was still angry with me, so he turned his head to me and gestured to me, I ignored him, looked up at my father, and my father looked back at my mother with a smile, and then turned his head again and said, "Oh? ”

I said: "The minister was named Princess Changle when she was ten years old, and she was given a real seal, which is the grace of the two saints." However, the story is that the princesses all have bureaucratic subordinates, but the ministers have none, which is the fault of the two majestys. ”

The father raised his eyebrows and said, "What does this have to do with you leaving the palace?"

I straightened my back and said: "The prince of this dynasty, there is a case of self-appointed subordinate officials, the two majestys do not notice, and before the subordinate officials and ministers, the ministers have to recruit their own talents, in order to serve the palace, to find filial piety, and hope to make up for the loss of His Majesty, this is also one of them." Second, although the minister has had, over the first offense, the two Majesty Xià a little teaching, the minister will know that the mistake can be changed, if the Majesty Xià with this big precept, it is not to teach and punish, although the punishment is complicated and the minister is invincible, it is not the way to do it, Fu Qi Majesty Xià Mingjian. ”

I said it so casually, but I was really a little apprehensive in my heart, but the more I was so worried, the more I straightened my spirit, opened my eyes, and made sure not to show timidity, my father just smiled at me casually at the beginning, and when he saw that I really said something, he laughed out loud, and pointed at me while laughing: "I now know why your aunt always calls you a little scoundrel, with your mouth, saying that a scoundrel still praises you!" While speaking, while stretching out my hand, I grabbed my father's palm and stood up slowly, Li Rui took the opportunity to stand up too, but was glared at by his father, and was so frightened that he quickly fell down again, and waited for his father to wave his hand to him and "get up", before standing up straight, but grimacing at me.

I was relieved to see that my father had long since lost his anger, but I heard my mother say slowly, "So, you want to conquer Wei Huan?"

I looked at my mother, only to see her sitting there, I couldn't see any expression on her face, I was about to answer, and suddenly remembered that Wei Huan was expelled from the palace by my mother before, and hurriedly smiled: "The minister only met a Wei Huan today, and there is no one else to compare, it is too early to say that it is too early." As he spoke, he stepped forward, knelt beside his mother, and while beating her legs, he said: "The population of the capital is one million, and there are countless people with both ability and political integrity. ”

My mother and father laughed at the same time, and when I saw them laughing, I thought that this time it was time to make a big deal, but my mother pointed a finger on my forehead and said, "Master taught you scriptures, but you only use them to talk nonsense, I ask you, what kind of officials do you want to appoint when you say that you want to conquer the palace? You say that you can't give a big precept, what kind of punishment is it, it is a big precept? What kind of crime should you be guilty of leaving the palace without permission, wearing the clothes of a eunuch, breaking into the door of an official eunuch's house, and deceiving the housewife?" Before the Wannian Order, I specially escorted two people in, saying that it was the eunuchs and palace people who left the palace without permission, and they also specially went to the palace, this matter has come to the political affairs hall, how do you let me reply to him?"

I was so sweaty when my mother asked me that I even took back the hand that beat her legs, and I knelt on my knees, unable to defend myself.

It was the father who smiled and said, "That's it, how old is she?" ”

The mother glanced at her father, and that glance was full of charm, not like a woman who had already given birth to four children: "San Lang, you just spoil her!"

The father only laughed: "According to me, you are really too strict with her, her little daughter's family, it is rare to know about the expedition, know that you will be punished without teaching, and you still hold on to those small mistakes." ”

I stared at my father gratefully, and he winked at me quietly and said, "You have even said such a thing as the expedition, if you don't let you out of the palace in the future, it really seems like our fault." Yang Zigao, pass on the order, and Princess Changle will leave the palace in the future, as the example of the king. ”

My mother's smile suddenly faded, she glanced at me, and said lightly: "In my opinion, if you really spoil her, let her study in Hongwen Hall with Rui'er." ”

My father and I were both stunned, and as soon as my father frowned, my mother smiled and said, "It's just a joke, why should San Lang care-Wan'er, you come." She beckoned to a certain place in the hall, and Shangguan Wan'er stood out from the shadows like a ghost, walked quickly to the front, bowed down and waited, and my mother looked at me and said, "I heard that you don't even know who Chang'an Ling is? ”